I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 47 - 18: Martial Dao, Sacrificial Artifact, and Ancestor Worship—For What Purpose?

Chapter 47: Chapter 18: Martial Dao, Sacrificial Artifact, and Ancestor Worship—For What Purpose?

"Stop!"

"Please stop!"

The screams made Huo Yuu, who was guarding the entrance, stand on tiptoe to look inside.

"Ah... Sob... Sob..." It quickly turned into sobbing.

Jifu leaned against the stone pillar, his whole body shaking violently.

"I am from the Lingyu Tribe, how dare you..."

"Howl... I’ll explain, I am an exile who came with your tribe members from the Great Marsh."

"A little more pain makes it clearer."

Shen Can squeezed Jifu’s seemingly soft and boneless hand, pressing repeatedly with his fingers.

"Hiss..."

"I’ll tell you everything you want to know, just please remove your stinky... please take your hand away."

Jifu gasped heavily, "I can help your tribe grow stronger."

Hearing this, Huo Chang loosened his grip and pulled Shen Can aside.

A person from the Upper Lingyu Division, even if exiled, would be a great opportunity for their Blazing Flame Tribe.

In the Great Wilderness, there are too many tribes like the Blazing Flame, lacking higher inheritance.

Seeing the change in Huo Chang’s expression, Jifu’s heart stirred. His experiences were irresistibly attractive to these small tribes, which became his protection.

"First untie me, then give me..."

"Ah!"

Shen Can retied Jifu’s arm in a knot, bone splinters piercing through the skin, causing blood to flow.

The screams sounded once more, and Jifu shouted in pain, "You savages without even a Sacrificial Artifact are no different from ants, living just to await death."

"Savages, die, die!"

The intense pain caused his body to manifest scales again, gradually shifting into a state between human and fish.

"Howl..."

"Stop, please stop, I have witchcraft, I have the inheritance you want."

"Do you know what a Sacrificial Artifact is?"

"Do you know how many Witch Runes the Lingyu Water Control Technique consists of?"

"Do you know how a tribe’s rank is promoted?"

"If you want to know, exchange the children of your tribe for it. I only eat the small ones, or even if you kill me, I won’t speak."

"Haha, and you, you have to kneel and beg me, then maybe I’ll share the witch..."

"Ah!"

"Howl!"

"Ants, savages!"

"I am of the Lingyu bloodline, you group of savages, do you understand what Lingyu means!"

Shen Can tied knots on Jifu’s remaining arm and legs.

"Clan Leader, do we still have honey in the tribe?"

"Ayu, go dig up an ant nest outside."

This man’s attitude of treating the mountain savages and ants as alike was ingrained in his bones, even as a prisoner, he remained loftily above.

Attitudes are not changed overnight.

Of course, Shen Can didn’t expect this man to change.

He wanted the knowledge inside this man’s head.

So what if he was from the Upper Lingyu Division, does adding ’Lingyu’ mean having Witch Power not afraid of death and an iron will?

"Upper Division master, I suppose this kind of mountain honey is beneath your notice."

After bringing the honey, Shen Can brushed it onto Jifu’s body.

"Brother Can, the ants have been dug up."

Ayu came in from outside holding a jar, curiously glancing at the tied-up Jifu.

"Come."

Shen Can brushed some honey on Jifu’s mouth and nostrils, then grabbed two ants and slowly moved them toward Jifu’s nose and mouth.

"Ptooey, ptooey, phbbbt!"

Jifu shook his body, looking at the approaching ants, blowing air out of his mouth and nose.

"Ant, you disaster demon, how dare you, ah... sob..."

Two ants were pushed into Jifu’s nostrils by Shen Can, and then he looked over Jifu’s entire body.

"Ayu, help him out."

He poured honey all over Jifu’s body, then placed the jar of ants under Jifu.

"Take it away, take it away now!"

Jifu seemed to be on the brink of collapse, unable to imagine how a small mountain tribe could wield such cruel methods.

"Ah, I’ll talk, I’ll talk, okay?!"

"Speak, start from when the Lingyu Tribe’s fleet took advantage of the flood to migrate east."

"Take the jar away first, hurry up!"

Jifu sniffed his nose, "And my nose, my nose!!"

...

"During the flood, migrating east across the Great Marsh to hunt Wild Beasts and savages is a tradition of our Lingyu Tribe."

"Hunting tradition." Huo Chang felt a bit chilly, "How come we never heard of it?"

Jifu gasped for air and arrogantly glanced at Huo Chang, then gave a look of disdain. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"Heh... You small divisions are like ants, living a short life, how many floods have you even experienced from birth to death?"

That sentence left Huo Chang in silence.

"Ow!"

Shen Can was not used to this and went straight up to rub the tied-up arm.

"Speak properly, or I’ll gouge your eyes out."

Jifu shivered with fear, "In the eastern Great Wild Marsh, Wild Beasts have not been hunted for over a hundred years.

This time, my Lingyu, no no, it was their Lingyu, dispatched a Tier Four Submerging Giant Ship, and over thirty Tier Three Ironwood Ships of various sizes.

4,800 clan soldiers, accompanied by a hundred Tier One and Two Wizards, six Tier Three Wizards, led by the Second Elder, Jiao Qi, of the Martial Dao’s Fourth Realm, Divine Treasure Realm.

Migrating 18,000 miles east to hunt Water Beasts in the Great Wild Marsh, and along the way capture any savage tribes encountered, to use as miner slaves, funeral slaves, and for sale."

"Martial Dao Fourth Realm Divine Treasure, you probably don’t even know the name...

Jifu was saying, but seeing the cold light in Shen Can’s eyes, he immediately shut his mouth.

"Well, I became an exile because of a bloodline mutation, can you blame me for this change?

Born with a strong talent for Witch Cultivation, I thought I could become the most powerful wizard of the Lingyu Tribe, but unexpectedly turned into neither human nor fish.

Ever since, I became an outcast in the tribe, they imprisoned me in a cage, then exiled me a thousand miles away, for what reason?"

"Are you the only exile?"

"Of course not."

"The Lingyu Tribe established because of the Great Wilderness Exotic Species, the Lingyu, has a 3,600-year legacy, and at some point, children born in the tribe began to exhibit mutant Lingyu appearances.

I only found out after the mutation, that post-mutation, witch cultivation strengthens water control, and martial cultivation spawns Water Blood Qi.

However, this mutation also led to unexpected consequences, and the tribe exiled those of us with mutated bloodlines, this time we were unlucky, caught in the flood and were incidentally exiled a thousand miles away.

It’s not like I ate fellow tribesmen, I ate only ants, with the Lingyu talent, I could become immensely strong..."

"Slap!"

A loud slap brought Jifu’s excitement to an abrupt halt.

"What about the other exiles to the Great Marsh?"

"Who knows if they’re dead or alive, the depths of the Great Wild Marsh are fraught with dangers, even some places Divine Treasure Realm dare not venture, I was lucky to reach the edges.

I intended to find a place to recover, but after wandering for a while, the tribes on the wet land shores either captured clean or swept away by plague, and I only found a newly gathered small settlement.

Then I smelled blood and encountered you guys, so I followed along."

"How does Celestial Vein advance to Divine Treasure?"

Shen Can asked.

Jifu slanted his eyes again, then "Hey hey don’t hit, you need to establish nine Celestial Veins and unblock the circulation of the heavens to advance to Divine Treasure."

"Is there a big gap before Mountain Opening advances to Celestial Vein?"

"Yes."

"Before Celestial Vein it’s all foundational, purely increasing Qi strength, naturally the stronger the Qi, the more abundant the blood Qi, which enables the establishment of more Celestial Veins."

Speaking, Jifu glanced at Huo Chang.

"Your martial path has long ended, I’m not targeting you, I’m talking about all small tribes’ Celestial Veins, they all..."

Upon hearing, Shen Can raised his hand.

Jifu’s head shrank.

"Explain Mountain Opening and Celestial Veins."

"I’m not a martial artist, I’m a noble..."

Jifu paused, "In Lingyu, only the Celestial Vein advanced by Power of Seventy-Two Desolations qualifies for tribal cultivation, below seventy-two desolation power advancing celestial veins have no hope of the Fourth Realm.

It seems related to whether subsequent Blood Qi is sufficient to burst open Divine Treasure, but this is a tribal secret I don’t know."

"What did you mean by Sacrificial Artifact you mentioned just now?"

"Of course, it’s an ancestral artifact, the reason small tribes cannot sustain their legacy, resembling ants living short lives..."

"Don’t be afraid, continue," Shen Can gestured for the paused Jifu to continue.

"Besides the lack of martial and witchcraft inheritance, it’s also due to the absence of a Sacrificial Artifact."

"Sacrificial Artifacts are the foundation of ancestor worship, you wouldn’t naively think the rituals of large and small tribes in the Great Wilderness to worship ancestors are just simple ancestor worship, would you?"

"If the ancestors don’t manifest, what’s the point of worship?"